The Pressy is a tiny, simple button that you plug into the headphone jack of your phone that allows you to easily access a regular task. It uses an app that lets you setup the presses it takes to perform certain functions. Clicks are similar to Morse Code and are ...

Curtin University research a smartphone-like gadget that senses an entire room's features, builds a virtual map of it and communicates this to the user may one day replace the humble white cane to help blind sense their surroundings.
Using special multi-sensor array technology, the Indoor Navigation Project will enable blind to ...

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WeMo is a family of simple, ingenious products that allow you to control home electronics from anywhere.
Turn them on or off, trigger them with motion, even put them on a schedule. WeMo lives on your smartphone and uses your home WiFi and mobile internet.
Source: WeMo by Belkin
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Great article outlining Windows 8 & Metro Accessibility:
"Our accessibility goals in Windows 8 are to: Improve the assistive technologies that are components of Windows, and provide a good experience with the Metro style UI. Provide developer tools that have baseline accessibility built in, so that accessible Metro style apps are available ...

Just5 Mobile phones take the less is more approach with a phone ideally aimed at older persons and those with a disability with a phone that boasts 5 simple features:
1. Big Buttons :
These big buttons really do make a difference. Easy to dial even without putting on glasses.
2. ...

Sonamba is an easy-to-use, stand-alone device designed to enhance caregiving for seniors or people who need a little assistance living on their own.
Sonamba can send and receive messages, track normal activity patterns and warn of any changes. It provides medication and appointment reminders, and it even calls caregivers or ...

Interesting idea.
A first-thought is in the future this would be a way around the 'voice-command' dialing barrier that exists with most devices currently, where you're expected to push a button then talk.
A "puff-talk" action would work as a 'complete' hands free dialing alternative.
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SENS concept phone.
by Japanese designer, Takumi Yoshida
I've written previously about the importance of the correct type of feedback for input, especially when one or more of your senses fail you.
This SENS phone uses a combination of tactile sensors and audio feedback to the user. When a person key is pressed ...

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